ArticleJournal of Asian economics2023
Lights out? COVID-19 containment policies and economic activity.
Article in Journal of Asian economics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Spatiotemporal Dynamics of COVID-19 Pandemic City Lockdown: Insights From Nighttime Light Remote Sensing.GeoHealth · 2024Article
- The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the world's major economies: based on a multi-country and multi-sector CGE model.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The impact of Covid-19 containment lockdowns on MSMEs in India and resilience of exporting firms.Journal of economic behavior & organization · 2023Article
- The micro-economic effects of COVID-19 containment measures: A simple model and evidence from China.PloS one · 2023Article
- Economic geography of contagion: a study of COVID-19 outbreak in India.Journal of population economics · 2023Article
- The impact of health and economic policies on the spread of COVID-19 and economic activity.European economic review · 2022Article
- THE INTERGENERATIONAL MORTALITY TRADE-OFF OF COVID-19 LOCKDOWN POLICIES.International economic review · 2022Article
- Poverty in India in the face of Covid-19: Diagnosis and prospects.Review of development economics · 2021Article
- Lockdown induced night-time light dynamics during the COVID-19 epidemic in global megacities.International journal of applied earth observation and geoinformation : ITC journal · 2021Article
- Battling COVID-19 with dysfunctional federalism: Lessons from India.Southern economic journal · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
This paper estimates how strongly COVID-19 containment policies have impacted aggregate economic activity. We use a difference-in-differences methodology to estimate how containment zones of different severity across India impacted district-level nighttime light intensity, as well as household income and consumption. From May to July 2020, nighttime light intensity was 9.1 % lower in districts with the most severe restrictions compared with districts with the least severe restrictions, which could imply between 5.8 % and 6.6 % lower GDP. Nighttime light intensity was only 1.6 % lower in districts with intermediate restrictions. The differences were largest in May during the graded lockdown, and tapered in June and July. Lower house-hold income and consumption corresponding to zone-wise restrictions corroborate these results. Stricter containment measures had larger impacts in districts with greater population density, older residents, and more services employment. The large magnitudes of the findings suggest that governments should carefully consider the economic costs of country-wide pandemic containment policies while weighing the trade-offs against public health benefits. Keywords: Containment policies, COVID-19, Nighttime lights, India.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.